DENVER - Orange skies, winds gusting up to 70 mph, smoke tornadoes and hazardous air. The blazes have burned the second-most acreage since 2000 and included the state's two largest on record. One of Colorado’s smaller fires exploded late Wednesday from 19,200 acres to 125,440 acres and closed Rocky Mountain National Park. Fire officials say it has so far burned 169,600 acres. Normally, snow helps tamp down the devastation by this time of year, but drought across Colorado and warming temperatures have dragged out the season, fire scientist Jennifer Balch said. “We don’t see October fires that get this large,” she said. Colorado's fires haven't destroyed as many homes as the headline-grabbing wildfires in California and the Pacific Northwest the past few months, but they have worn down residents already weary from the coronavirus pandemic.

🚨 - Italians are uprising tonight against the draconian COVID-19 rules imposed by the social government and call for the resignation of prime minister Giuseppe Conte.